Medical Science
Volume 26, Issue 129, November 2022
KSMC referred cases characteristics and outcomes: Retrospective study
Omar Othman1♦, Ahmad Saad Alomari2, Mohammed Fahad Alqahtani2, Faisal Said Alshehri3, Fahad Fawwaz AlOtaibi3, Naif Mohammed Bazaie4, Abdullah Hazzaa Aldahmashi5, Abdulrhman Fayaz Alshamari5, Khalid Majed Ghazi Alharbi6, Ahmed Mohammed Saud Alhazzani5, Ahmed Mobark Alshahrani5, Meshary Hajed Al-Mutairi6, Faisal Sulaiman Alhakil5
1Emergency, EMS and Disaster medicine consultant, director of EMS and
disaster administration, KSMC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2Emergency resident, Emergency department, General Hospital, KSMC
Riyadh, KSA
3General Physician, Vision College of Medicine, Vision College, Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia
4Head of the ambulance transport department, EMS and Disaster
management, KSMC Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
5Emergency medical specialist, Emergency medical services and disaster
management, KSMC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
6Emergency medical Technician, Emergency medical services and
disaster management, KSMC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
♦Corresponding author
Emergency, EMS and Disaster medicine consultant, director of EMS and
disaster administration, KSMC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
ABSTRACT
This retrospective hospital records-based study focused on KSMC emergency department as one of the crowded hospitals in the
country. Some delays were observed regarding the referral system from primary, secondary or tertiary hospital which plays an
important role in the admission process in this hospital, so it’s necessary to investigate the nature of referred cases and the final
outcome. Our study based on hospital records data to collect information regarding patient’s status, arrival time, interventional
time, final outcome additionally to other variables. Statistical analysis was performed using frequency, descriptive statistics, chisquare test, fisher exact test, Pearson correlation, relative risk and odd ratio. Our results found that there’s some delay in a patient’s
arrival to the emergency department. But no significant delay was observed after the patient’s arrival; also, the delay on
intervention was observed to be correlated with poor final outcome.
Keywords: Referral, Emergency department, KSMC
Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms474e2546
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i129/ms474e2546
Published: 17 November 2022
